British Faction

The British Faction was an informal political grouping of conservative politicians in the United States of the Ionian Islands that was active from 1815 to 1864. The faction was installed into power by the United Kingdom upon the creation of the protectorate at the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, and it supported the trade agreements made with the United Kingdom and the Austrian Empire. The faction held liberal views on trade and religious policy, but it opposed immigration to the islands, and it also supported a strong military. The faction dissolved when the Ionian Islands were annexed by Greece in 1864.